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[QUOTE="billybud, post: 5327186, member: 3850"]
Louisville was a grab for football when it started becoming clearer that football was more important than basketball....they have been up and down.

Cuse and BC were ill fated wanderiings that haven't panned out...

Louisville did make the ACC Championship game in 2023 and was 9-4 last season...

A lot of message board chatter has occurred over the years that FSU and Clemson heavily pushed for Louisville's entry.

I have some doubts about President Barron at FSU supporting that November 28, 2012 vote.

Why, you might ask?

Because President Barron was an academic who supported the FSU Faculty Senate and had circulated a email to the boosters dated May of 2012 (widely reported) that he did not support FSU going to the Big 12...part of his reasoning...

[I]7. The faculty are adamantly opposed to joining a league that is academically weaker .....

.... We can't afford to have conference affiliation be governed by emotion - it has to be based on a careful assessment of athletics, finances and academics. I assure you that every aspect of conference affiliation will be looked at by this institution, but it must be a reasoned decision.[/I]

Barron left FSU in 2014 to become President of Penn State (2014-2922).
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